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Choosing the Best Therma-Tru Door for Your Historic Home
Choosing a door for your home is an important decision, especially if you have an older home that preserves the traditional or historic features of a specific time period. Choose the wrong door, and it can look horribly out of place; choose a door that harmonizes with the existing historical details and architecture, and your home can achieve a distinctive style that makes it the star of the neighborhood.
Is it Time to Replace Your Door?
While some homeowners may consider themselves lucky to have their home’s original doors, older doors pose several problems: First, exposed to decades of weather, sun and use, many older doors become warped over time, resulting in a poor fit that can allow air to enter and exit, wasting energy and significantly boosting heating and cooling costs. What’s more, doors designed and constructed decades ago (or more) were not designed with today’s security needs in mind, leaving your home open to potential break-ins.
Just because your home’s doors need to be replaced, that’s no reason to abandon the beauty and historical authenticity that an older door can impart to a home. Therma-Tru offers a wide range of door styles ideal for older homes that incorporate time-appropriate influences and details combined with state-of-the-art security features and energy-saving enhancements.
The Classic-Craft American Collection
Constructed of rot-proof fiberglass, Therma-Tru’s Classic-Craft American collection
was inspired by homes of the early 20th century, including homes from the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras as well as homes designed in the Arts and Crafts style. Doors in this collection feature a realistic wood grain finish so you get the look of a solid wood door without the worry of wood, weather or insect damage. The collection offers five door styles as well as nine glass styles so you can create a truly custom look for your period home. For instance, consider combining the Craftsman lite 2-panel door style with the Hazelton or Villager glass style for an arts and crafts or American bungalow-style home.
The Classic Craft Mahogany Collection
Classic/Traditional Design
Many doors are patterned after actual door styles that were popular during specific time periods: The three-quarter twin lite
in Therma-Tru’s Classic-Craft mahogany collection
reflects the straightforward lines of American foursquare homes.
Victorian Design
Both the three-quarter arch lite two-panel style
and the three-quarter deluxe oval two-panel
are ideal for Victorian-style homes. And Therma-Tru makes it easy to accommodate different entry styles, from single doors to double entries with sidelights and transoms.
Choosing Your Finish
Once you’ve chosen your door style and any glass options, it’s time to turn your attention to the finish. Choose from a wide selection of easy-to-apply stains so you can match your door to exterior or interior elements or create a completely different look that will help your historic door stand out and garner the attention it deserves. If paint is more to your liking, the Therma-Tru site offers a detailed paint selection guide to help you choose the shade that’s ideal for your home’s style.
Therma-Tru is dedicated to offering its customers doors that feature the beauty of yesteryear with all the security and structural integrity of modern-day construction technology. With a high quality door from The Door Centre, you can remain loyal to your home’s unique period without sacrificing the advantages of the 21st century.
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